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L4sBotMB to [email protected]English • 2 years ago

Gfycat.com shuts down on September 1 and all Gifs will be taken down

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Gfycat.com shuts down on September 1 and all Gifs will be taken down

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L4sBotMB to [email protected]English • 2 years ago
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Gfycat.com shuts down on September 1 and all Gifs will be taken down - gHacks Tech News
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Popular animated gifs hosting service gfycat.com is shutting down on September 1, 2023 and all hosted content will no longer be accessible at that point.
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    Money. Always.

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      57•2 years ago

      Gfycat had the excellent business model of hosting a load of high bandwidth content and not making any money from anyone

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        You forgot the excellent idea of being highly integratable to the point end users don’t even know the gifs they’re seeing are from gfycat

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          Really though. On Reddit at least, how often did you actually go to gfycat instead of just viewing on Reddit’s webpage or a third party app?

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            1•2 years ago

            When I wanted to hear the audio, I would click through to get the video interface. Usually for pr0n.

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      how is shutting down a website profitable

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        The service is likely a money sink

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